Leaders around the world consolidate control as virus spreads

• “China chose now to arrest Hong Kong’s leading pro-democracy activists and puncture its Basic Law.”
• “Algeria banned street marches that have lasted, off and on, for a year, threatening the elderly ruling elite.”
• “Azerbaijan’s president says the ‘isolation’ of members of the opposition may ‘become a historical necessity.’ Several have been locked up for supposedly violating a lockdown.”
• “In Uganda police raided a shelter housing 20 gay and transgender people and later charged them with ‘congesting in a school-like-dormitory setting within a small house.’”
• “In Turkey at least eight journalists have been arrested on charges of ‘spreading misinformation.’”
• “In Bolivia the interim president, Jeanine Áñez, decreed that those who ‘misinform or cause uncertainty to the population’ can be jailed for one to ten years.”
• “In Fiji there have been more coronavirus-related arrests than diagnostic tests.”

Go deeper: Read the article